shadoweth

Verb

shadow (third-person singular simple present shadows, present participle shadowing, simple past and past participle shadowed)

1. (transitive) To shade, cloud, or darken.
   • The artist chose to shadow this corner of the painting.
2. (transitive) To block light or radio transmission from.
   • Looks like that cloud's going to shadow us.
3. (particularly espionage) To secretly or discreetly track or follow another, to keep under surveillance.
   • Soon after departure, we cross the invisible border into Scotland to enjoy more stunning coastal scenery, before the line finally swings inland at Burnmouth to traverse pine-clad valleys, shadowed by the A1 trunk road until we rejoin the coast at Cove, east of Dunbar.2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75
4. (transitive) To represent faintly and imperfectly.
   • Ah, ye admonitions and warnings! why stay ye not when ye come? But rather are ye predictions than warnings, ye shadows!1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 36, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 182
5. (transitive) To hide; to conceal.
6. (intransitive, transitive) To accompany (a professional) during the working day, so as to learn about an occupation one intends to take up.
   • In most cases, interns have mainly observed, or “shadowed,” their Hands-On hosts, but some interns have been given real tasks to perform, […]1980, “Study of the Career Intern Program”, in Alternative Education Models […] , U.S. Department of Labor […] , page 20

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